You can't plan a long journey on a globe-based map that would work on a flat Earth-the differences are too significant. This would mean that every single international pilot and and sailor, both professional and recreational, would have to be lying. How could this be? If it was true, planes would routinely run out of fuel or make significant errors in travel times.įlat-earthers have two counter-arguments:Īrgument 1: Travel times do match the flat-earth model but international travelers incorrectly report them.įor this to work, every single international traveler has to get their travel times wrong in such a way that looks like they were traveling around a globe. This means that all globe-based maps, distances and calculations used by anyone navigating between countries are fundamentally wrong. Flat-earthers counter this by claiming that those measurements are wrong. The obvious problem with this map is that the distances between countries are dramatically different to the distances that have been measured in the real world. Whereas the original map was not intended to show the real positions of countries relative to each other (because you can't project a sphere onto a circle without distortion), flat-earthers consider it a real, more-or-less accurate map of the Earth.

More recently, this map was adopted by proponents of the flat Earth theory.

Its purpose is to project a globe Earth onto a flat surface to use as a two-dimensional map. Early versions of this map date back to the 11th century. It's a type of map originally created and used by globe-earthers, called an azimuthal equidistant projection. This map was not originally created by flat-earthers.

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